When I was 20, I was home on summer break from college. It was a really nice day and I was by myself in my parents’ little Toyota Yaris on the 15 minute drive home from the gym around 1 pm. There’s this stretch of highway that is straight-as-can-be, and I remembered something that I just HAD to tell my friend, and…

We always travel for our birthdays, and we like to do driving vacations so our two dogs can come along. We had just recently moved to LA and wanted to explore south of us, since we’d only ever driven north. For my 33rd we decided to drive down through Temecula and stay in the mountains. I ended up finding an…

I’ve kind of told this story before, but I feel like telling it again with a bit more detail, it’s not scary but it is kind of sweet. About 6 years ago I had my own 2 dogs and 2 foster dogs. One of those foster dogs ended being a “foster fail” and we adopted him as he just wasn’t working out in any of the homes he…

The Boy Who Wasn’t There

I’m surprised it didn’t follow you. 👻

My sister and her husband are foster parents to two little girls, and have two biological children of their own. They are hoping to adopt the girls but needed a bigger house for that to be a possibility. They started searching and found a giant house that used to be owned by a group of priests in the area. They housed…

My Mexican grandmother is a devoutly Catholic woman who is close friends with her priest and has spent decades giving communion at Sunday mass. Her life revolves around church. This is to say, she’s not one to mess with any unholy shit.

My Uncle Billy was the black sheep of the family. He was my mother’s older brother, who joined the military in the early 1990s and saw combat in the first Gulf War, but he didn’t come entirely back. My mom said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and something called gulf war syndrome. My father said he…

And here is one that is sadly from this year. Not scary but definitely supernatural...

I submitted this last year but it was way too late... so here goes again

I’ve got one I call “Old Gray Thing” that I always forget to post. It was a paranormal encounter but I’m still not sure what exactly it was, and I’ve always been curious if anyone else has seen one too. I’m doxxing myself if anyone I know reads this, but here goes nothing...

A few years ago, I had a great job: It was my first office job, and it was in my field of study. I got along great with all my colleagues, we had a lot of fun together, and I learned so much working there.

A quick one that serves as something of a prequel to the story I posted earlier today.

Most people don’t believe in ghosts. I didn’t, but after I had my baby, everything changed. I now know for sure there are things we cannot see that exist. My paranormal sensitivity intensified...something wanted my attention. It started when my partner (“M”) woke up in the middle of the night and yelled. He said he…

Our pet dog passed away unexpectedly late last year. We grieved and were despondent for months. It literally felt like there was a gray pall over us.

I say hi to my flowers when I get home from work. “Hi, how was everyone’s day? Growing well?” That kind of thing.

I smile a lot alone and generally feel euphoric. I sing and dance and talk to my dog like she's my actual child and suddenly I'll realize I've been smiling ear-to-ear for two hours straight. I'm usually too worried to smile when I'm around other people.

I don’t know how weird this is, but I’m in my 30s and I still wish on stars. I don’t drive so it’s not unusual for me to be walking home in the dark alone, and I’ll pick the first bright star and make a wish out loud. They’re usually fairly vague, and I’ll also explain myself out loud to the star. Like “I wish that I…

Agreed. This is how I feel about Diana too every time I see some headline about how she found out about Camilla or some shit. Just let it go. Why cant it just be about Whitneys talent or Dianas charity? 

After going back on forth on whether to submit, I finally decided to just go for it but was too late for this year. Here is my scary story, and it’s a whole lot truer than the thrift store one!